َQuestion
Masha
Allah, your questions and answers (especially the answers!) are informative
and enjoyable to read. May Allah grant you to keep up the site!
This
is a question about stops - I have asked you about stops before and am still
struggling with these.
In
the following aayah there are quite a few "marked" stops so I
thought I could try and learn from it:
The
interpretation of the meaning into English:
“O ye
who believe! take not the Jews and the Christians for your friends and
protectors: They are but friends and protectors to each other. And he amongst
you that turns to them (for friendship) is of them. Verily Allah guideth not a
people unjust. " (Yusuf Ali) 5: 51
1.
At the small meem(
)
is it a "kaafi" stop? That is : what is before is complete in
meaning and what is after is linked in meaning but not in grammar. We can stop
here and start with what is after it, insha Allah.
2.
Between the
and the
;
this is the part that puzzles me - if we start here and stop at the
,
it would seem incomplete in meaning as we would not know who Allah, ta'aala,
is referring to unless we look to the first part of the aayah.
3.
Between
and
:
this again seems incomplete in meaning by itself although stops are marked.
(I
would be tempted to say it is better to read through form the beginning to the
and that those two marked stops are maybe hasan.)
4.
The last part starting at the
and ending the aayah is complete in meaning and not linked in
grammar but linked to what is before in meaning only. This is a kaafi
start.
It
would be really appreciated if you could correct my understanding if, and when
it is convenient.
Wa
jazakumu Allah bi kulli khair.
Answer
Assalaam
alaikum wa rahmatu Allahi wa barakatuh. Jazakum
Allahu khairan for your comments and ameen to your dua’.
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The
denotes a waqf laazim or compulsory stop.
That means the stop is necessary to make clear the intended meaning
of the aayah. This can be bayaan kaafi or bayaan taam.
In this case it is bayaan kaafi because if it were read in
continuation with the next phrase:
it
would be understood as a description of the Jews and Christians whom we
should not take as protectors (those that are protectors and close friends
of each other), when in reality, the first phrase is a complete one with
no further description added. The
second phrase is just a general description of the Jews and Christians in
general, that they are close friends and protectors of each other.
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Between
the
and
,
the phrase here is complete in grammar, and linked to that which came
previous to it in meaning. There
is no problem then with this phrase being read by itself.
It is a kaafi start and kaafi stop at the
.
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The
phrase from the
stop
mark to the
stop
mark is complete in grammar and stands on its own in meaning, but linked
in meaning to that which came before, so it is a kaafi start and stop.
-
You
are correct, that last part of the aayah starting after the
stop
sign is also a kaafi start.
Wa
iyaakum wa al-muslimeen
